“…Where’s the Nazi gold, you donkey shagger!?”

Seriously, have you seen the BBC’s The Thick of It yet? The comedy is so dry, it makes The Office seem soggy.

Now come on, did you really think I wouldn’t post about this?

Frontline’s got nothing on Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth isn’t a left-wing movie or slanted politics. Don’t believe Michael Moore comparisons. This movie is mother fucking science. You know, the branch of study that requires theories and hypotheses be tested? Researched? Backed up by facts? Charts and graphs?

Over the past five years, climate science has been censored, edited, nipped and tucked by this administration. (**see below or look it up.) Whatever your feelings on George Bush and his posse, the war, and this administration’s cornucopia of missteps, their crime against science takes the prize of most egregious. I’m flying the nerd flag here, I know. But I see us as very close to another Dark Age if religious fundamentalism and corporate profit are allowed to determine the focus and application of SCIENTIFIC STUDY in regards to the future of this planet.

I know many of you who read this site are too young to remember the pre-Clinton Al Gore. He was an environmental activist as much as he was a politician, before he became our Vice President. I don’t know what the hell happened to that guy. I sure didn’t see much of him in the 2000 election. But the guy in this movie? THIS is the guy I remember. THIS is the guy I thought was pretty fucking cool back in 1991. THIS guy could have won by a country mile in 2000. THIS guy knows his shit. Where the hell has THIS guy been? Touring the country tirelessly with his presentation on global warming. That presentation is the basis for An Inconvenient Truth.

Ergo, in short, therefore, GO SEE THIS MOVIE.

(click here for dates and theatres near you)

I’ll be there Friday night, after I get my lemongrass rickey on at Dragonfish.

What does this have to do with wine? Uh… only everything if you take the long view. The last eight years have already shown effects of increasing temperatures in the wines produced from various regions around the world. Whether it’s the Loire Valley or Piedmont or Mosel Riesling… You can taste the record temperatures.

**Fine! I’ll help you. Look these up first …

Rewriting The Science, from CBS News

ClimateScienceWatch.org Censorship Roundup

(csw.org is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science.)

Union of Concerned Scientists website

(the Union of Concerned Scientists is a union, of scientists who have concerns)